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Legal Threat Demands We Shut Down Techdirt

Here at Techdirt, unfortunately, we get an average of about one legal threat per month. The threats are almost always frivolous -- and often made in

Attorneys General Continue Grandstanding Against Craigslist

This is hardly a surprise, given the well-coordinated media campaign against Craigslist, but despite multiple "settlements" with various state attorneys general, it appears that those AGs keep going back to the headline-generating well of demanding Craigslist "fix" things. You may recall that nearly two years ago, after being hounded by some AGs, Craigslist settled with the AGs, despite clearly being protected by Section 230 of the CDA. However, despite it being "settled," some AGs felt it wasn t enough

USB Stick Led to Worst Cyber Attack on U.S. Military; Russia Suspected

The purposeful attack occurred in 2008 in the Middle East and led to the theft of classified information

Streaming Video Hosting Firms Look to HD Video for Profits

Netflix pays 3 cents to stream SD movies and 5 cents for HD flicks

PlayStation 4 Will Have Still Physical Media Capabilities

No PSP Go style download only content for the PS4

Raising Money To Put Famous Classical Music Recordings Into The Public Domain

Plenty of old school classical music is in

BMI Appeals Ruling That Lets Venues Route Around BMI, Claiming It Somehow Harms Musicians

At the end of July, we wrote about a court ruling that DMX, a commercial provider of music (a la muzak) to restaurants, bars and the like, had won a lawsuit, which would allow it to deduct money from the blanket license it had to pay collection society BMI if it did licensing deals directly with BMI artists. Not surprisingly, BMI is none too happy about this ruling and it has appealed it. What I find fascinating, of

Canon Outs New EOS 60D D-SLR with Articulating Screen

D60 will replace the 50D in the Canon line

Lotus Seeks Funding for Evora 414E Hybrid Prototypes

Lotus looks to the Technology Strategy Board for funds for an additional Evora 414E Hybrid prototype

Microsoft Offers Workaround For Remote DLL Vulnerability

A vulnerability was recently discovered in Microsoft Windows operating systems that exploits the default dll loading behavior. A Microsoft Security Advisory explains that the “issue is caused by specific insecure programming practices that allow so-called binary planting or DLL preloading attacks”. In simple terms: Applications that do not use qualified paths for external dynamic link [...]

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